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EXPLORATION AND MINING:EXPLORATION AND MINING:
COPPERCOPPER--GOLD IN THE LAO PDRGOLD IN THE LAO PDR
ANDAND
GOLD AND NICKEL IN WAGOLD AND NICKEL IN WA
INVESTOR UPDATEINVESTOR UPDATE
HIGHLIGHTS:
ASX listing on 6 April 2006, codes AYR and AYRO
Recent MOU on JV agreement with Nilandon Mining Group (Laos) on Nam Thong Copper-Gold Project area
Nam Thong has similarities to Sepon Cu-Au deposit to the SE
Gold projects in WA with current total resource base of 308,000 ozs
Pre-feasibility study completed on Comet Gold Mine area: treatment of ore on site has been on hold until higher gold price, or tolltreatment may occur sooner
Exploration update at Horse Well gold project
Exploration update at Kurrajong nickel project
Shares on issue: 69,300,000 (quoted 56,625,000)Current price: $0.15Market Capitalisation: $10.4 million
Listed options on issue: 35,000,000Current price: $0.05Exercise date: 6 April 2009
Top 5 shareholders:
Shareholder Name Number of shares Percentage Big Bell Gold Operations Pty Ltd 5,000,000 7.22%Jayson and Janet Meyers 4,000,000 5.77%Nakura Resources Pty Ltd 4,000,000 5.77%Frazerview Investment Pty Ltd 3,500,000 5.50%Auriferous Mining Ltd 2,499,925 3.61%
Cash on hand: approximately $2.2 million
SHARE STRUCTURE AND CASH POSITION
Peter Harold - Non-Executive ChairmanManaging Director Sally Malay MiningChairman –Territory Uranium
Dr. Jayson Meyers – Managing DirectorAssoc Prof Curtin UniversityEx Great Central Mines Group
Peter Hepburn-Brown – Executive DirectorAlso Kasbah ResourcesEx Harmony Gold, Great Central Mines, WMC
Kevin Hart – Non-Executive Director and Company SecretaryPartner Endeavour Corporate
BOARD AND MANAGEMENT
LAOS PROJECT
-Project area highly prospective for Cu-Au mineralisation
-HOA signed with Nilandon Mining Group to earn up to 80% interest
-Adjacent to Pan Australian’s Phu Bia Mine (2.0 Moz Au and 1.2 Mt Cu), and along strike from Oxiana’s Sepon Mine (4.5 Moz Au and 1.8 Mt Cu)
-Project area consists of mining concession area and application for exploration and mining concession anticipated to be granted before the end of the year
-Entry into project to earn 60% is US$1.2M in 3 staged payments: US$250K paid, US$300K on granting of application, and after 18 month exploration period US$650K (or exit with no interest)
-On completion of BFS earn 80%, then both parties contribute or dilute.
Copper Occurrences Gold Occurrences
GENETIC MODELS FOR LAOS Cu-Au DEPOSITS
LAOS PROJECT
- Geology similar to Sepon: siltstones and limestones with high level intrusions, silica and sulphide alteration, same foldbelt
- Potential for copper and gold
- Granted mining lease
- JV partners have good relations with local and national government
- Number of untested areas of outcropping mineralisation and geochemical anomalies
- No restrictions on foreign ownership
- Low cost labour force
- Relatively easy access
-Excellent time to be establishing projects in Laos
New Frontier
Project located near Cue
Near operating mills at Mt. Magnet and Sandstone
Evaluation completed on construction of a MMP at site
COMET-WEBB’S PATCH
COMET-WEBB’S PATCH
Principal strategy is to recommence mining at higher gold price
Comet underground resource 165,000 ozs
Pinnacles, Comet North, Eclipse, Comet South and Venus have over 65,000 ozs in open cut potential
Ultramafic horizon identified having favourable rock chemistry for nickel-sulphide occurrences
Exploration using geophysics, structural studies and intensive drilling programs
NickelExploration
area
COMET DRILLING
Drilled approximately 6,500 metres to test fault zones hosting sulphide alteration and gold
Discovered new high-grade zone 500 m to south of Comet
Confirmed continuation of Comet structure at depth
COMET DRILLING TARGETS Long section
shallow TEMPEST conductors
COMET DEEP DRILLING FOR DEPTH CONTINUATIONS
COMET SAM
SURVEYING
Gold bearing structures detected and new targets generated
Venus target drilled and showed low grade gold mineralisation
COMET PROJECT, MINING
Pre-feasibility study completed May 2007:
- Metallurgical test results, so far high gravity recovery following 75 microns grind (>50%) with a total recovery of 94% with leaching
- This shows that gold with sulphide is non-refractory
- Optimal flow sheet for processing plant design
- Costing of plant components and construction
- Calculation of operating and site costs using updated quotes
- Mine design, ore-to-waste ratios, and development costs
- Mining costs and transport costs
- Treatment at site is an expensive option, and production scenarios are more robust at higher gold price or using toll milling
Rock Chips: Nickel MgO
HORSE WELL
Palomino prospect has a gold resource of 75,000 oz above 100m depth
Open along strike and depth
Optimised open cut potential
Other advanced prospects within tenement
Within trucking distance to Jundee and Wiluna mines
Geophysics and drilling to increase resources and explore for new deposits
HORSE WELL
Tenement covers Horse Well greenstone domain
Palomino contains JORC resource of 600,000 t at 2.7 g/t
Palomino is open along well-defined geological structures
High gold grades in drilling at other prospects
Large area of greenstone belt not effectively explored by drilling
Cu-Pb-Zn targets in east
HORSE WELL Open cut resources and targets
Palomino
Filly
Bronco
HORSE WELL Palomino Long section looking east
Horse Well prospects with N-S and NE trends digitised. The intersection lines coincide with the lineations observed at each of the deposits.
HORSE WELL
Leapfrog
study
Target
HORSE WELL
SAM survey
Results
Tenements recently cleared through Native Title
Resource evaluation for Bronco and Filly
Geochemical targeting and drilling in 2007
• 88 Creek project
• Entirely new gold province in Australia
• Gold can be explained as an epithermal deposit forming within the continental plate
• Several prospects with gold in soils
• Multi-spectral targets
NORTH KIMBERLEY
Acrobat Document
88 CREEK
• First pass drilling proved a bedrock source for the gold
• Requires targeting and drilling below low-grade gold intersections in order to test for high-grade mineralisation
88 CREEK
NORTH KIMBERLEY difficult field area
Kimberlite Kimberlite IntrusiveIntrusive
PorphyryStock
High gradeHigh gradegold targetgold target
at depthat depth
Low sulphidationLow sulphidationsystemsystem
Epithermal gold model88 CREEK
88 CREEK
Drill testing using a specialised rig that get into field area
Drilling to occur when tenement extension granted and at end of cyclone season
Progress exploration in Laos: company set up, preliminary exploration, granting of concession, drilling in mining lease area, aggressive explorationComet and Horse Well projects: commence mining on favourable profit scenariosTargeting gold exploration at Horse WellNickel exploration at Kurrajong projectDrilling at 88 Creek on tenement extensionEvaluate projects for acquisition
FUTURE ACTIVITIES
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